When it comes to mobile development, we have to choose the development framework wisely. We have to consider what our goal is specifically (e.g. we don't need cross-platform solution for an iOS only calculator app)
- Code: we only can develop on a language which we know)
- Cost/time: maybe it's even faster to learn something new than do sth in the way we used to do
- Platform: make sure what's the target is
- Performance: all technologies have limits, we have to make sure that the chosen platform can do what we would like to achieve
With Cross-platform solutions, we often give up some of these points and make compromises. With this fusioned solution, I show a way to get rid of those compromises.
What if a client requests an app which is...
- Superfast
- Super nice
- Cheap
- Cross-platform
- Basically 2D <-- till this point, Flutter could be used (or any other well-known cross-platform framework)
- But there should be some heavy 3D stuff included...
This is just not possible.. or is it?
- Let's create a nice 3D app with unity and we manage the UI somehow with Unity as well..!? 💡
- 3D part ✅
- 2D menu ❗ (not smooth, not nice, not accurate, hard to align things, not what we used to at the usual cross-platform frameworks)
So how to proceed?
- From Unity 2019.03.x we can export Unity projects as binaries/components which can be then embedded to native projects as a view
- Hang on... 💡 Flutter has a component which enables embedding native views to the widget hierarchy (PlatformView)
... What if we combine them?
- Unity 3D widget inside a Flutter app
- Power? Provided by the Unity framework
- Communication? Message call-backs (implemented for both platform)
Let's get back to the customer's request:
- Superfast...✅
- Super nice...✅
- Cheap...✅
- Cross-platform...✅
- Basically 2D...✅ - so far so good! ...
- But there is some heavy 3D stuff included...✅
